The Arizona Department of Education got confirmation this week that their preschool improvement efforts can look forward to another round of $20 million in grant money. Arizona was one of 18 states to receive federal funding.

President-elect Donald Trump has named Arizona House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham to a press relations post on his transition team and added state Treasurer Jeff DeWit as a special adviser for operations.

During the presidential campaign, Trump called for a ban on Muslims. His current transition team has spoken of potentially creating a Muslim registry and has even highlighted one of America’s darkest eras in history, the internment of Japanese, as a potential model. All this talk has had an impact on members of the Islamic community in Arizona.

Lawmakers across the country — including Arizona — have seriously discussed the concept of sentencing reform to modify how long convicted felons have to serve, depending upon what sort of crime they’ve committed.

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